page_title: Downes, Crediton
section_title: Gould
hierarchical_section_title: Downes, Crediton / History / Gould
caption_attribution_description: English: Arms of Buller: Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first (Burke's Landed Gentry, 1937, p.279)
context_page_description: Downes House is situated about one mile east of Crediton in Devon. The house is an 18th-century Palladian re-modelling of an earlier house. It was classed Grade II* listed on 20 May 1985. Nearby is the site of a Roman villa, revealed by crop-marks as a rectangular enclosure containing a winged-corridor structure. In 2012 the estate comprised 1400 acres, including the Home Farm, Fordton Barton, Uton Barton, Dunscombe Farm and other land 110 acres and parkland.
context_section_description: The estate of Downes was purchased in 1692 by Moses Gould (1668–1703), eldest son and heir of William Gould (1640–1671) of Hayes (i.e. Floyer Hayes in the parish of St Thomas, Exeter) and Dunscombe, MP for Dartmouth in 1671. The Gould family was descended from a certain John Gold, a crusader present at the siege of Damietta in 1217 who for his valour was granted in 1220 by Ralph de Vallibus  an estate at Seaborough in Somerset. Moses married twice, firstly in 1690 to Anne Prust (died 1691), daughter and heiress of Mr Prust of Rawley. The marriage was childless. Secondly Moses married Susanna Kelland, daughter and co-heiress of John Kelland of Painsford, MP for Totnes. His eldest son and heir was William Gould (1697–1726), of Downes, who married Elizabeth Quicke, daughter of Andrew Quicke of Newton St Cyres. William and Elizabeth left no sons, only two daughters as co-heiresses (a third daughter Frances Gould (1720–1720) having died an infant):
  Elizabeth Gould (1718–1742), who married James Buller (1717–1765), of Morval, Cornwall, and of Shillingham, MP for East Looe in Cornwall in 1741 and for Cornwall 1748-1765.
  Frances Gould (born 1722), who married in 1741 John Tuckfield (1719–1767) of Little Fulford, MP for Exeter 1747-1767 The marriage was childless, leaving the Buller family sole heirs of the Gould estates.
caption: Arms of Buller: Sable, on a cross argent quarter pierced of the field four eagles displayed of the first[10]
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